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"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly." -Albert Einstein.
It's only natural for churchers to repeat lies till they believe them to be true. They have been taught well.
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Who cares? I don't know anything about god. Never met one personally, but I would never label another person stupid for being a believer.
That's why IQ measures POTENTIAL, not ACTUALITY.
That right there shows how ludicrous it is to use ones belief in God or lack of belief in God and basing it on the persons IQ as if is proof the person is higher educated or more intelligent.
They may have the ability to if they have the desire and motivation to become higher educated and more intelligent but someone with the highest IQ that follows his fathers footsteps and does get a higher education and instead takes over the family business of pumping out septic tanks will never be as educated as someone with a lower IQ who does get a higher education.
My IQ is 147 and while I did attend and graduate college I majored in business and then ended up a American franchise car dealer as a part owner and then we sold our dealership and purchased a marina and became a boat dealer. We purchased a small run down marina that did not sell boats and turned it into the largest marina on the 50,000 plus acre lake we were on and became the second largest dealer in the U.S. for the type of pontoon boat we sold and we did it in a very rural area.
I myself averaged 200 new boats sold every season which made me the number one salesperson in the U.S. for our line of boats for four years in a row. I used my intelligence to sell our product and could do it because I not only knew our product like the back of my hand but also knew all our competitors products like the back of my hand and could therefore sell against them. I would tell people about the boat they were comparing to ours, not in a negative way but only in a comparative way, and they would go back and compare and talk to the salesperson and come back and purchase from me and tell me that when they brought up things I mentioned about the other boats and asked the salesperson questions about it they normally did not have a clue and either had to look up the information or just say they did not know.
Then we sold the marina and that was why I was able to retire at the age of 49.
So I became educated in what I needed to be educated in and then used my intelligence to my advantage but I would never come close to saying I am as educated as many people who possess a lower IQ who went into other fields of study and different lines of work.
If you do not use your gifts to their fullest potential someone less gifted will pass you when it comes to knowledge if they fully use their lesser potential. So IQ alone is not in any way a measurement of intelligence or education but only one of the capacity to become educated and intelligent.
So if I were one of those asked if I believed in God or not and was then listed by my IQ level people would look at my level and say wow, he is as or more intelligent than a physician or a scientist or an attorney or those at the upper levels of government (which I would find to be somewhat contradictory considering the sheer ignorance of those at the upper levels of government) when in fact all I did was sold cars and boats and ran two businesses in a small rural Southern town and never fully utilized my potential and became as educated and as intelligent as many with a lower IQ.
I top most people when it comes to capability to learn but when it comes to education and gathered knowledge I am not and never will be in the same league as many with less capability who fully utilized their potential and became more educated and gathered more knowledge in their lifetime.
So why would my belief be more valid than someone elses who has a lower IQ level? Just because mine topped theirs by 5 points or 11 points or whatever? They are higher educated and have far more knowledge and have proven that they more fully utilize their potential than I have so to me their belief should be more valid than mine.
Also possessing a high IQ does not mean that someone will necessarily be able to figure out anything and everything they attempt to do. There are no known records of Albert Einstein ever having taken an IQ test. The estimates of his IQ vary widely but most so called experts guess that it was roughly 183.
My ex-neighbor has an IQ of 198. He worked at Duke University doing DNA research and has since been transferred to a Duke University operated facility in Miami and heads the department.
One day he came over and asked if I would help him with something. His lawn tractor needed a new belt, one that drives the blades, and he could not figure out how to remove the mower deck. I helped him but I mainly just told him what to do so he would then learn it and be able to do it alone the next time. I told him to pay attention to the routing of the old belt before he removed it. When it came time to install the new belt he could not figure out how to route it to save his life. I showed him and he said he had it but later in the summer he snapped the new belt and had to replace it once again he was back asking for help because he still could not do it alone.
So there is an example of someone intelligent enough to understand the secrets and workings of DNA, something I know nothing at all about, but yet he could not figure out something as simple as changing the mower deck belt on his lawn tractor not only the first time he needed to do so but also not all that much later after having been taught how to do it.
Someones IQ level and overall intelligence can work in mysterious and limited ways. Some things will come easily to them and when it comes to other things they may be and remain clueless or next to clueless.
So when it comes to two things, creationism or the Big Bang Theory and the Theory of Evolution, how or why is their personal opinion any more valid than that of anyone elses? Both creationism and The Big Bang Theory require faith to believe in them in that neither one has been conclusively proven and are both are no more than chosen beliefs.
One has a book, well actually several books, that tell people how things allegedly occurred and the other is basically a belief based on what is considered to be a cause and effect where a supposed effect was looked at and then a cause for it was theorized.
Both belief structures have holes and gaps in them that require a leap of faith for them to be accepted so in essence one is a belief based on the existence of some higher being that religious writings claim to exist and the other is a belief based on a theory devised by man.
In a way both are religions even though some came into existence thousands of years ago and the other much later in time and the main similarity between the two beliefs is the need to hold a solid faith in core beliefs that are unproven and their main difference is what each ones core belief is.
Both belief structures have holes and gaps in them that require a leap of faith for them to be accepted so in essence one is a belief based on the existence of some higher being that religious writings claim to exist and the other is a belief based on a theory devised by man.
Who cares? I don't know anything about god. Never met one personally, but I would never label another person stupid for being a believer.
Religion is a deeply personal choice. As a free man, what I believe has no bearing on anyone else. And what others believe is none of my business.
I love how everyone here who stated their IQ is basically at genius level. Apparently the "average" of 100 isnt common among us tokers? You people need to go sign up for MENSA with your IQ's jeeze.
But to add my opinion: My IQ as of like 15 years ago (when I was very young and was tested to join those elementary school "gifted programs") is 135. I have no clue if its changed since then. BUT I am also agnostic, adding to the many many high IQ people who are not believers. Logically and rationally, how can people believe in something that has NO proof?
Who said anything about a forced opinion?It's just an opinion up for debate, kind of like whether or not marijuana should be legal, or how the economy is going to affect us... I think any opinion is nobodies business until they voice it, and people are encouraged to voice their opinions on God's existence/lack their of if they so choose. Nobody is being forced here to give their opinion.
Who said anything about a forced opinion?
My opinion was not directed against those offering theirs.
Correct me if I am wrong, but the premise of this thread seems to be that studies indicate that less intelligent people cling to religion. It simply seemed like an opportunity to bash religious, or less intelligent, folks.
My opinion is such an exercise seems a shade arrogant and condescending. An exercise which, in my opinion, serves to do the opposite of encouraging a free and open exchange of ideas, or opinions. As evidenced by the paucity of religious posters on this thread.
I don't recall writing anything about offensive posts.It wasn't posted as "People with higher IQs are less likely to believe in God, according to a new study - because they're so much smarter!"
(Bold got stuck on here for some reason, not meant to be all in bold)
It was posted as "People with higher IQs are less likely to believe in God, according to a new study. - DISCUSS"
There are still many valid arguments against the accuracy of this argument or what it may be trying to hint at. Like one person already mentioned, you're more likely to get a higher IQ if you're more educated, have had more science pumped into your brain, and hence probably use evidence and proof to backup your beliefs. The point of the posting as far as I can tell wasn't meant to be menacing, just to start a debate.
The posters who are offended are offended more than likely because they are not comfortable with the results of the study that suggests people with lower IQ's tend to believe in God more than those with higher IQ's. Uncomfortable - that's what makes for a good debate. If the claim was "all IQ's more or less believe the same" it would be a very boring debate indeed.
I don't recall writing anything about offensive posts.
This entire thread seems to be an opportunity for an intellectual circle jerk. "Look how smart we are!"
As far as intelligence versus religious views. Noodle this out:
I am agnostic, yet I use currency which clearly states on it 'In God We Trust.' Furthermore, I live in a state where churches, synagogues, mosques, etc. are tax exempt, which means they are subsidized by me.
Now tell me, who has the upper hand? The less intelligent religious types, or me - the free thinker?
All I said was 'Who cares!' Spirituality is a deeply personal choice.For the offensive posts comment, I was under the impression you thought this thread "unworthy" because it offended readers/was aimed at offending readers. But even if it is a circle jerk thread, let them jerk each other off!
I wasn't. I was simply using it for example, but I welcome your input.As far as your agnostic stance I'm not sure if you were asking for my two cents? It sounds like were though..
Dark matter is hypothetical matter. Astronomers who have studied it for decades have no idea what it actually is.I think it makes sense to be agnostic if you haven't bothered debating the issue of God very much, but to have searched for God, searched for proof, read arguments for/against His existence, or anything along those lines and then still remain agnostic is kind of like saying "I don't know what I believe in regards to black matter" after taking courses on cosmology that cover black matter. You may not know much about the theories for and against black matter right now, and will undoubtedly never see black matter, but you can still make a decision after you've been informed of the arguments for and against it.
For a long time I was certain there was a god: The surly god of Abraham who demanded my allegiance out of fear of damnation.So if you haven't pondered God's existence, agnosticism makes perfect sense to me. If you have pondered it somewhat deeply, I find it hard to believe that the arguments for and against weighed each other out evenly.. though I suppose anything is possible.
Why would any SUPREME being design a world based on carnage...
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